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New appointments to the Seafish board
Chair, Deputy Chair and five new members appointed to the board of the Sea Fish Industry Authority
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10 May 2021
A new chair, deputy chair and five members have been appointed to the board of the Sea Fish Industry Authority (Seafish).
Seafish is a non-departmental public body which carries out a wide range of activities to support a thriving seafood industry, working with the fishing industry and processors through to importers, retailers and food service providers.
Michael Sheldon, appointed as Seafish Chair, brings more than twenty years’ experience of the agri-food industry. Formerly Deputy Chair of Seafish, he is also board member on the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB).
BBC News
By Conor Macauley
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Fishermen in Northern Ireland have written to the prime minister insisting they get a fair share of additional UK quotas secured by Brexit.
Two organisations representing hundreds of fishing vessels came together to make the joint appeal.
They want extra fish shared out under existing UK rules on how they are distributed among the devolved nations.
They said that other approaches being considered would discriminate against the fleet in Northern Ireland.
The Northern Ireland Fishermen s Federation (NIFF) said it currently held around 8.4% of the UK s quota.
The NIFF said officials in Whitehall seemed to believe that if Northern Ireland got most of the additional fish in the Irish Sea that would be sufficient.